Posts Tagged our strange sky
Our Strange Sky: Canadians Launch a Lego Man Into Space, Films it All. Awesome Journey, Eh?
Posted by mistergroonk in Space, Video on January 31, 2012
They claim to have more video on how they did it and extended footage in the works. We’ll keep an eye on their Facebook page for these bits.
Official site http://www.facebook.com/legomaninspace
Our Strange Sky: Astronaut Ron Garan Shares the Moon
Posted by mistergroonk in Photography, Space on October 21, 2011
via +Ron Garan
Our Strange Sky: Aurora from Atlantis
Posted by mistergroonk in Photography, Science on September 7, 2011
Astronaut Mike Fossum caught a beautiful photo of Aurora on July 27, 2011 from Space Shuttle Atlatnis last mission.
via @astro_aggie
Our Strange Sky: The Pileus Iridescent Cloud of Ethiopia
Posted by mistergroonk in Science, World on September 5, 2011
Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. The above image was taken just after the picturesque sight was noticed by chance by a photographer in Ethiopia.
via APOD
Our Strange Sky: And in the Sky, a Crown of Clouds and Light
Posted by mistergroonk in Photography, World on August 30, 2011
Our Strange Sky: NASA’s Bird’s Eye View of Hurricane Irene
Posted by mistergroonk in Photography, Science, Space, Video on August 28, 2011
We’ve had our eyes to the skies even though our blog has been silent. Here we have @Astro_Ron‘s tweeted photo of Irene from the ISS. Below the jump, NASA video of Irene from space and a live blog of her passing.
@Astro_Ron Views Irene on August 27, 2011
Our Strange Sky: The Plains Milky Way of South Dakota
Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Photography, Space, USA on July 29, 2011
Plains Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.
Notes on experiencing this video to the fullest:
1) Wait until the dark of night.
2) Find the darkest corner of your house/apartment/cave hole.
3) Set the video to fullscreen
4) Enjoy
We love what Randy Halverson sees in Our Strange Sky.
During the month of May, I shot Milky Way timelapse in central South Dakota, when I had the time, and the weather cooperated.
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This was all shot at night. If you see stars and it looks like daylight, it is actually moon light. 20+ second exposures make it look like daylight.
Official Site: http://dakotalapse.com/
Our Strange Sky: Lightning and a Lunar Eclipse from the Edge of the Planet of Goats
Posted by mistergroonk in Photography, Science on June 29, 2011
Thunderstorms almost spoiled this view of the spectacular June 15 total lunar eclipse. Instead, storm clouds parted for 10 minutes during the total eclipse phase and lightning bolts contributed to the dramatic sky. Captured with a 30 second exposure the scene also inspired what, in the 16 year history of Astronomy Picture of the Day, the editor considers may be the best title yet for a picture (title credit to Chris K.). Of course, the lightning reference clearly makes sense, and the shadow play of the dark lunar eclipse was widely viewed across planet Earth in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The picture itself, however, was shot from the Greek island of Ikaria at Pezi. That area is known as “the planet of the goats” because of the rough terrain and strange looking rocks.
via apod
Thank You, Internet, For this Strange Bit of Sky
Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Intertube Madness on June 21, 2011

We don’t know where this came from or who made it but we like where it’s going.